TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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NEEDLESS WORK and COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE ACCEPTANCE and THE CURSE OF HABITS
If Teachers Do Not Know the Entire Path
As
was the case with Andy Gugar (who is the editor of "The Advanced Seekers'
Series" and "The Blissful Abidance Series") the longing here
that led to decades of seeking and searching was triggered very early.
As was also the case with Andy, the road which was traveled before
coming across "the non-dual path" was a long and grueling
and onerous road. The "journey" had been quite arduous.
Happening upon certain words and names such as "advaita" and
"non-duality" and "Maharaj" - and then entering into a
thorough study of those - aroused some hope; however, after so many years of
searching in vain, the hope was of a most cautious and guarded nature . . . so
many instances of hope having been dashed along the way before, time and again.
The restraint was warranted. Along with the words of Maharaj in I AM THAT, the
words and writings of more than fifty non-duality teachers were read, and while
each of them may have been able to guide other seekers somewhere,
A. not a one of them presented the non-dual understanding in a way that led to
the "Aha! Moment" what happened here;
B. not a one provided the final, search-ending flash of the peripetia;
C. not a one ignited the gunpowder that finally blew away all of the blockages which had been built up via programming, conditioning, acculturation, domestication,
indoctrination, and brainwashing;
D. not a one offered the Ultimate Medicine in a manner that finally brought to
an end the misery of the Ultimate Sickness which had generated suffering for
decades;
and
E. not a one made clear the means by which
(1) full realization
and
(2) the ability to abide naturally and normally and steadily and Lovingly and
simply and sanely and enjoyably throughout the remainder of the AM-ness
could both happen.
Yes, there were years in the deepest pits of despair; yes, there were years
where the head was in the clouds and a parade of
even-more-obnoxious-personas-than-before all came and went, including
"Floyd the Religious One" and "Floyd the Spiritual Giant"
and "Floyd the Lofty Thinker" and "Floyd the Supreme Self."
Even as talk of "the Oneness" happened, the fact is that there was a
greater sense of separation while playing those roles than during any of the
darkest days of the past. And part of that happened even after finding and
exploring the many different "brands" of non-duality.
All of the talk of "the path" and "the journey" proved to
be a disservice for it implied that the there was "a path" that could
be followed to its end and I would "arrive" somewhere;
and all of that talk also suggested that, if I would but complete "the
journey," I would arrive at a destination which was "there" -
well away from "this world" which had rendered a Type Four
Personality (the type that accounts for only 1-2 of 1% of the earth's
population) feeling quite the alien on this planet.
What was the missing element in the explanations and talks by all of those
teachers who talked of "the path" and "the journey"? What
was missing was the key fact that there is not one passage that is to be
completed but that there are actually three in total. Even if one wants to claim
that there is but "one journey," then it must be made clear that the
journey has three legs.
And Maharaj's earliest statements (which were his only statements that were
read originally) seemed to point to a two-leg "journey":
“ . . . You should go back, reverse, to the source”
and
“Follow the same path by which you came.”
If one reads the book Sri Nisargadatta
Maharaj and His Evolution, it becomes clear that the early emphasis was not
solely on the ultimate "goal" of abiding naturally. The "totally
unadulterated version of a purely Nisarga message" came years later.
So in the process of seeking via non-duality, there was a fruitless search for
"the exact path," an unsuccessful search for the exact way to follow
that "path," a futile search for the means by which "the
journey" could finally be completed once and for all, and an unproductive
search for the way to reach the final destination of "the journey"
and remain there.
It took a vision that came one afternoon while leaving the delta level of consciousness
and entering into a theta state of consciousness to finally "break the
code" being used by so many teachers and understand
** what the entire three-leg "journey" involves,
** how only one-leg of "the journey" will happen with the masses,
** how an entire three-part "journey" must happen if one would
Realize Fully, and
** what happens after "the journey" is completed so that the
remainder of the relative existence can happen in a not-insane, non-stupid,
not-ignorant, non-fluctuating, non-chaotic, not-unstable, but totally steady
and logical AS IF manner instead.
That manner is marked by freedom and joy and peace as well as an ability to
merely witness whatever events that the relative existence might toss one's way
which might fall outside the categorization of "perfectly tranquil
happenings."
Thus, the discussion will continue with an explanation of what AS IF living
looks like post-realization and after the third and final leg of "the
journey" has been completed.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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THE EXPLANATION
Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:
"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"
and
"Heaven and earth shall fade away."
and
"Heaven and hell are not geographic places
"There is no hell."
teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.
